As Butlin's celebrates 75 years, a peak back through the archives reveals a Catherine Zeta Jones in a Minehead talent show...

The fringe and headband may be gone but the dazzling smile remains the same.

A ten-year-old Catherine Zeta Jones was making an early appearance on the stage during the final of the 1979 Junior Star Trail competition at Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, where the A-list star to be was enjoying a break with her family.

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Don't look down, Mum: Holidaymakers on the chairlift which took campers down to the sea at Filey in 1961

As these pictures from the book show, it reveals a lost world of ‘glamorous granny’ contests, innocent train rides, and rooms full of happy children left in the care of uniformed nannies. And not a PlayStation in sight!

Billy Butlin’s original holiday camp at Skegness was an instant hit, and after World War II, there was an explosion in demand for his cheap and cheerful brand of all-inclusive group entertainment.